Ardisia. pentandria monocynia. 27i 



garden it has attained the height of eight feet, since the year 1810, 

 When it was introduced, blossoming in the hot and the commence- 

 ment of the rainy season; the berries ripen in August — October. 

 — The leaves on the luxuriant shoots measure full twenty inches in 

 length, and between four and five inches in breadth towards the out- 

 er end ; from thence they taper so much downwards as to be scarce- 

 ly one and half inch broad at their lower third part. Berry globu- 

 lar, rather depressed, red, shining, smooth, size of a large pea ; pulp 

 pale pink-coloured. Seed round, apiculate, with a convex umbilicus 

 at the base. Exterior integument (putamen?) crustaceous, thin, grey, 

 marked with ramous, vascular fascicles, converging from the umbili- 

 cus upwards ; the inside brown and smooth, unconnected with the 

 end except at the base. Inner one brownish, lanceolated, spungy, 

 attached to the albumen by numerous, very small, distinct adhesions, 

 the vestiges of which remain after the integument has been removed. 

 —Albumen cartilaginous, hard, whitish, slightly and superficially 

 ruminate, with a deep impression at the base. Embryo milk-white, 

 horizontal, cylindric, equalling the breadth of the albumen, or a little 

 shorter ; both its extremities slightly descending. Cotyledons very 

 short, subulate. Radicle long, sub-clavate, directed towards the 

 surface of the perisperm.— N. W. 



3, A. colorata, R< 



Shrubby. Leaves linear-lanceolar, entire, smooth ; veins nearly 

 diverging. Panicles terminal, (large aud highly coloured,) compos- 

 ed of a tew, decompound, expanding branches. 



Umur-kuWi, the vernacular name at Sillier, where the shrub ia 

 indigenous, and one of the most desirable species of the genus I have 

 yet met with. It is in Mower and seed the greatest part of the year. 



Trunk erect, with numerous, smooth, expanding branches and 

 branchlets ; general height, in its native soil, about twelve feet. 

 — Leaves alternate, short-petioled,v linear-lanceolar, entire, acute, 

 veins parallel, and nearly diverging from the rib, about six or seven 

 inches long, and about two-broad. Floral leaves minute. Panicles 



